FauxMazzle 1 "End of Life" The current version of FauxMazzle that has been serving the MazzleUI addicted since November 2013 has reached (exceeded really) its "use by" date. The next version of FauxMazzle (2) is now in Beta for both Retail and Classic (see the links above). It will mean setting up your characters from "scratch".

To see what that means, you can, (if you haven't yet) create a character in Classic and install the FauxMazzle [Classic] Beta package (see the link above) or create a character on the PTR and try the retail package there or try it on live retail!!! The code base for the FauxMazzly bits is the same in both versions.

The new FauxMazzle (2) Beta will replace the current live retail version at the same time the Classic Beta goes "gold" if nothing catastrophic presents.

What is FauxMazzle?
FauxMazzle is a look and feel tribute to MazzleFizz's once great MazzleUI that sadly didn't make it out of The Burning Crusade.

For most designated [wide] resolutions up to 1920x1200. For resolutions greater than 1920x1200, your mileage may vary.

Updates8.3.1

Update: for 8.3: Visions of N'Zoth.

Fix: Updated DUF for Mechagnome/Vulpera race icons.

latest known version of addons included.

Endorsements.
Many thanks to the generosity of Elcarath for allowing 3 very cool skins to be added to this project. You can view all the available skins below.

I would like to thank the addon authors without whom FauxMazzle would not be half the UI it is today, literally.

As always, a big thank you to Mazzlefizz for the original MazzleUI.

What do you get?

Context Menu (slightly different implementation from the original).

Custom raid frames that sorts your raid team by group, or by tank, healers and everyone else.

The option to sort raid units by group and/or show the raid units target icon.

Various raid unit customisation options.

Background textures that although not Mazz's, I consider are a reasonable approximation. If you have the textures from the original MazzleUI (including those from other authors that were part of the pack), they should also work with FauxMazzle. If you do have Mazzlefizz's original textures please DO NOT publish/upload/share them, Mazzlefizz licencing was very specific about the use of MazzleUI code and art.

3 additional skins from the original MazzleUI compilation, courtesy of Elcarath (see the skin gallery below).

An in-game configuration dialog for the "configurable" addons listed.

The ability to choose your own replacement addons (which you will have to configure yourself).

The ability to switch off/on configuration of individual addons should you want to make and preserve your own changes or play around and then re-apply the default settings.

A MazzleUI style HUD with additional Druid mana/pet health insert.

The joy of once again seeing a cool MazzleUI style layout without hours (and hours and ....) of fiddling around.

The ability to have this quick, easy setup for all your characters new and old.

Suspiciously Missing!
FauxMazzle does not include bag, data broker/information bar or quest log addons (it does include a way to move the ObjectiveTracker window).
While MazzleUI included these types of addons, there are many flavours of each now available at WoWInterface.com and they don't overly impact on the overall look in-game, choose the one that works best for you.

How do I use FauxMazzle?

Download FauxMazzle.

Exit the game.

Rename or move elsewhere the WTF folder at [Drive]:\[Programs Files]\World of Warcraft\WTF.

Move elsewhere all the folders (or at least the ones not on the list below) from [Drive]:\[Programs Files]\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\.

Unzip the FauxMazzle .zip file and copy the newly extracted addons to the folder [Drive]:\[Programs Files]\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\.

Start the game and at the character selection screen press the "AddOns" button (lower left corner) and check the "Load out of date AddOns" box (the first time you run FauxMazzle configuration tool (/FM) you will be warned to do this even if you have already done so).

Enter the world and type /FM (see slash commands below) . The configuration window should have boxes ticked for the addons you have installed.

Check/Uncheck boxes for the addons you do/don't want configured.

Use the SmartBuff button to configure reminders for timed buffs etc.

Use the options under the HUD tab to configure the HUD to you liking.

Press the FauxMazzle button and let FauxMazzle go to work bringing you a bright new interface for your character to take on the world (of Warcraft).

Where's my game (micro) menu and where are my bags?

Move the mouse to the right hand side of your screen just above the background artwork and your MicroMenu will appear.

Move the mouse just above MicroMenu and your bags will appear.

Slash commands.

/FM or /FAUXMAZZLE - Open the FauxMazzle configuration window (/fm and /fauxmazzle are interchangeable for all slash commands) or you can click the FM button beside the calendar and tracking mini buttons.

Hotspot list.
If you mouse over a Hotspot a text will tell you what it actions.

Context menu.
This is an easy access space to bring together commonly used non-combat items so they don't clutter up your action bars. It has two pages accessed by scrolling the mouse wheel up/down. Note: The menu will hide automatically if you have or aquire a "live", potentially harmful target (yellow/red).

To access: right click the FM button. This will display the menu over the space used by the combat log/loot menu.

To hide: move the mouse outside the menu area.

To configure: select the Menu/Chat tab of the FauxMazzle setup window, the first page of the menu will automatically be shown (which can be paged). From here you can create, rename or delete sections, drag and drop spells, mounts, items (not pets yet) onto the menu.

Default: by default the menu is initially populated with active class items (pick lock, death gate etc., flight items you have ie. Aviana's Feather, Flight Master's Whistle and Hearth Stones. Teleports/Portals are placed on page 2. These can be re-populated or added once learned by pressing the "Default" button on the menu.

To add new items/spells: just drag and drop them while the FauxMazzle setup window is open and the Menu/Chat tab is selected.

Customising the HUD.
Under the HUD tab in the FauxMazzle setup window there are options for configuring every part of the HUD, size, colour, text display etc.. Options of note:

Exiting or reloading WoW with the Unique checkbox unchecked will save the current settings as the Global default for every new character FauxMazzled.

Exiting or reloading WoW with the Unique checkbox checked will save the current HUD settings as personal to the current character.

Once checked/saved, unchecking the Unique checkbox will revert a personal setting to the current Global settings.

Pressing the DEFAULT button will reset to the default FauxMazzle settings.

Customising the Raid Frames.
Under the Raid Frames tab in the FauxMazzle setup window there are options for configuring many parts of the raid frames.

Optional display of each role icon.

Optional display of each power type bar (mana, energy, rage etc.).

Order by role (default), tanks then healers then everyone else or order by group (groups 1, 3, 5, 7 on the left of the taget frame, groups 2, 4, 6, 8 on the right).

Option when ordering by role to have the tanks and healers display to the left or right side of the target frame.

Option to show the Raid Icon (skull, cross, circle, moon etc.) currently on the units target.

Option to display the Player raid frame when not in a raid (NOTE: triggers an automatic UI reload. NOTE: this option is cleared on entering a group or raid).

Options to change the bakground color and alpha of the frames.

Options to change the units health Full, Low, Critical colours.

Options to set and choose a single colour for unit names and the name shadow (default is colour by class).

The Focus frame won't show unless you have set a focus unit. Rignt click on the desired unit and select Set Focus from the menu. To clear, right click on the Focus frame and selec Clear Focus from the menu.

The Objective Tracker. (quest dropdown list)
This can be moved for each character to the position you prefer on the screen by holding down the SHIFT key and dragging it. It will not let you take it off-screen.

The default position in the original MazzleUI for the quest log was top left of the screen below the then FuBar bar.

Update: Roll-up of the latest known version of addons. Autobar and Druids can still throw an error on occasion.

8.2.1 - 27/6/2019

Fix: Skin selection.

8.2.0a - 26/6/2019NOTE:Blizzard just updated (build 30920) to make the temporary 8.2.0 fixes I fixed for Autobar, Decursive and Prat broken. FauxMazzle 8.2.0a fixes the fixes I fixed that got broken by Blizzards fix... or something like that.8.1.2 - 16/3/2019

Works with 8.1.5

Fix: DUF fix for Kul Tiran Human and Zandalari Troll race icons.

8.1.1 - 7/1/2019

Works with 8.1.5

Fix: DUF Alt. Mana bar.

Fix: DUF UNIT_AURA not updating buffs/debuffs properly.

8.1.0 - 15/12/2018

Update: 8.1 Tides of Vengence.

8.0.9

Fix: The BNToast frame should now properly anchor above the right tower.

Update: The artifact tooltip now includes the actual level as well as percentage attained.

Update: Added option to leave the pet battle UI in its default state.

8.0.8 - 8/9/2018

Fix: Missing Azerite Power event.

Update: BfA Portals and Teleports added to the Context Menu defaults.

Update: General cosmetic updates and fixes.

8.0.7 - 19/8/2018

Fix: Updated Discord Unit Frames with Deathknight rune fix.

Change: Artifact tooltip a bit easier to understand.

8.0.6 - 19/8/2018

Fix: Artifact numbers were <cough> a little off.

Update: Added a full chat reset before running the chat configuration.

Change: Moved the talking head frame to no longer block the island invasion scoreboard.

8.0.5 - 13/8/2018

Fix: Change to the chat configuration to fix an error popping up via Prat's EditBox code (will require the FauxMazzle process to be run for each character).

Change: Update to the PetBattle UI to make pet selection more accessible.

8.0.4 - 5/8/2018

Fix: Contains a fix for a BfA change effecting HitsMode. There is still a tracking message that might be printed (reports greatfully appreciated) but it should no longer generate an error.

8.0.3

Update: This is a rollup of all the latest addon updates including the release version of Autobar.

8.0.2 - 25/7/2018

Fix: Includes updated Discord Unit Frames to fix DK rune bug.

Update: Includes the BETA version of Autobar for BfA.

8.0.1 - 22/7/2018

Fix: For nil table return by the map function when in instances (thankyou legion3pm).

8.0.0 - 21/7/2018

Update: Updated for 8.0 Battle for Azeroth. SmartBuff is probably dead for good. At some stage I may look at building something similar into FauxMazzle. There is no nameplate addon included which may well be the case moving forward (there are plenty out there).

7.3.4 - 30/10/2017Requires: Running the FauxMazzle Process on a single character (you can do this after setting the new option below).

New: Preserve option for the raid frame settings. Checking this box will preserve all your per character raid frame settings when you run the FauxMazzle process. If you want to re-set for an indiividual character you can press the "Default" button while playing that character.

Fixed: Several fixes and improvements.

7.3.3 - 30/9/2017

New: Druid Taxi Icon: When your Druid takes a taxi while in Flight Form, the Flight Form icon will display in the top left of the player portrait frame. The icon will disappear when the taxi ride ends.

7.3.2 - 14/9/2017

Change: Moved the various MicroMenuAlert Close buttons to the Top Left of their frames so they can be used in game.

Fixed: Caching problem causing the Context Menu to display the wrong background when switching characters using different skins.

Fixed: Some background panel alignments.

New: Option in the Menu/Chat tab to display the chat Social button.

New: Skins (2). An artistically challenged gnome's take on both Legion and Lich King themed backgrounds (many in-game assets were butchered in the creation of these skins so my thanks go to the truly talented artists at Blizzard).

7.1.6a/b - 23/2/2017

Fixed: Changed the Raid Frame and Context Menu tab order in the setup window for those that don't use the FM raid frames.

New: Raid frame option "Highlight Self" replaces the thin silver border around the player raid frame with a solid black border to highlight your character in the raid frames stacks.

New: Tooltip when your cursor is over the Artifact Power globe to show current power percentage plus current power/power required for next level.

Changed: Scaled the talking head frame down slightly.

Updated: latest known version of addons included.

Changed in 7.0.2

Returned: TrinketMenu. Make sure it is enabled in the FauxMazzle settings window.

Returned: Autobar. Make sure it is enabled in the FauxMazzle settings window.

Fixed: Quartz swing timer.

Fixed: Target name text being displayed behind the protrait.

New: Decursive added. It has 3 settings which are character specific.

Show(default): Show Always.

Party/Raid: Show only in Groups and Raids.

Raid Only: only show in Raids.

7.0.1 - 21/7/2016

Returned: Mapster.

Returned: TomTom.

Returned: OmniCC.

No longer included: Gatherer (GatherMate2 has been updated if you want to use instead).

Fixed: SCT with fix for DK runes.

Disabled: Blizzard Floating Combat Text.

Updated: DART to account for some events that are no longer being fired when you enter the game for the first time.

Updated: Latest known versions of addons included.

NOTE: Clique still has some issues that will be updated over time.

7.0.0 - 20/7/2016

New: FauxMazzle made compatible with version 7.0 Legion.

New Added the Totem bar just to the left of the player section of the HUD growing from first totem upward.

New Option to place the Totem bar above the Buff/debuff frame rather than on the HUD.

New Added the Artifact Power bar.

New Option to set the distance at which nameplates are visible.

New The Personal Resource bar is now automatically hidden.

Changed: Disabled Blizzard scrolling combat text.

New: TalkingHead frame moved to top of screen.

New: Hiding the UI (Alt-Z) will now resize the 3D world to full screen and adjusts back when the UI is shown (yay for screenies).

Fixed: Bottom left hotspot will once again open/close the zone ability frame (I'm not sure if this has any use outside Draenor and the function of this button will most likely change if there is something more useful it can do).

Updated: Latest known addons included.

***NOTE*** sRaidFrames is no longer included or supported by FauxMazzle, please REMOVE sRaidFrames from your addons folder before starting WoW!

6.2.12b - 4/7/2016

Removed: A function from Aloft used during configuration was failing silently ie. no errors were posted. Given that Aloft is no longer supported and will be replaced with the Legion pre-launch I will not try to fix this so for the next couple of weeks any new setup will get the default Aloft settings. The replacement for Aloft will look different sooo.....:cool:

6.2.12a - 3/7/2016[list]

6.2.12 - 3/7/2016

Fixed: Configuration not working properly (possibly a pre Legion launch patch change) most notable for characters that have not been FauxMazzled before.

6.2.11 - 14/4/2016, 6.2.11a - 15/4/2016
The "a" version fixes a bug where the DART configuration might not be updated correctly.

New: General option: Meters in instances. Automatically displays your meters when entering instances, raids, battlegrounds, arenas. Does not hide them when you leave!

New: HUD text options:

Player only: When displaying health or mana as a precentage the targets health/mana will be dispayed as an absolute value.

Max.: If player or target health/mana is dispayed as an absolute value, this option will dispay the max. health/mana under the current value once current is less than max.

Changed: Latest known versions of addons included.

6.2.10 - 23/3/2016

Fixed: Errors caused by Battle.net api changes in 6.2.4 patch.

Changed: Minor changes to background and pet battle frames when in pet battle.

Role grouping and prioritisation. Roles are sorted tanks, healers, the rest and each role group is sorted in alphabetical order. They are displayed from bottom right of the right hand stack (default) or bottom left of the left hand stack growing inward and upward. Side selection is per character.

Debuff icons. The first three dispellable debuffs are displayed on units. Once one is gone the list is checked to see if there is still another to take it's place. Debuffs also have tooltips.

Clique support.

Updated: Latest known addons included.

6.1.3 - 8/6/2015[*]Fixed: Error being generated for new FauxMazzle users on entering the world for the first time.

6.1.2 - 31/5/2015
Requires running the FauxMazzle process once.

New: The bottom left hotspot toggles the Draenor zone ability button.

6.1.1 - 2/3/2015

Fixed: Internal code changes for future options support.

Fixed: Included version of Dominos now supports the "land at next Flight Master" button to terminate taxi rides.

Added a slash command parameter to set out-of-combat alpha for the PLAYER health/mana half of the HUD. /fm bga0 to /fm bga9 will set how visible the player portion of the HUD is when not in combat. /fm bga0 = invisible, /fm bga5 = 50% visible up to /fm bga9 = fully visible .

Widened chat frame 2 (combat log).

Changed the format of the player level/class text. This should reduce the overlap for DKs with longer names especially now we will be leveling to 100.

Character based artwork. The individual artwork chosen when /FMing a character should be set each time that character enters the world. If you set individual backgrounds for some but not all characters then the characters that have NOT been configured will use the background of the last character to enter the world.

Moved the AchievementAlertFrame up above the target cave.

Beta 6 - 27/1/2014

Added a Mazzle style HUD and removed IceHUD (you will need to either remove the two IceHUD folders from the wow\Interface\Addons folder or disable IceHUD).

Changed the mechanism for clamping the background artwork.

Moved the DUF class bars and combo/anticipation points from their respective unit frames to the bottom of the new HUD.

Beta 5 - 3/1/2014

Updated RatingBuster conifugration.

Added and configured the BNToast frame.

Added and configured Quartz.

Added Recount.

Changed MoveAnything configuration.

Added Omen.

Aded Smartbuff.

Added options to re-position the Blizzard quest tracker frame.

Changed IceHUD configuration.

Added several addons that don't get configured.

Beta 4 - 23/12/2013

Elcarath has kindly allowed me to include his Blood Elf, Draenei and Orc skins, available via /FM.

Added options to enable/disable colouring and or flashing of the background while in combat.

Adjusted bag and micromenu for new shop button.

Added a message for new installations to remind people to check "Out of date Addons" before using /FM.

I was close to releasing the other day when the author of Prat decided to do some work on it (how rude ). Since then there have been one or more releases each day, some that do effect FauxMazzle (anyone updating Prat on retail or classic will have seen some of the visual changes). It's actually been a busy time for several addons in the package.

The temptation is just to release "as is" and cross fingers given this will be more alpha/beta than anything approaching "gold". Certainly not feature complete but close enough to be believable I hope.

I would say "Soon" but everyone else seems to own that one.

A couple of hours or less depending on how comprehensive the initial download page is and nothing catastrophic happening in the next couple of test builds.

Originally Posted by Bremagorn

Hi Fizzlemizz:

I was one of the original beta testers for MazzleUI back in the day. I saw you're currently working on a Classic version of the Faux Mazzle. I'm down for testing out anything you have playable.

It tells me that I'm set at and running my max resolution. Still can't /FM though on any toons. /reload works, just can't bring up the Fauxmazzle interface. Which is fine. I just can't play any newly created toons at the moment is all.

Hey Fizzlemizz! Tis weird, I decided to make a couple of new toons with the new races and also take advantage of the exp/rep bonus. But when I try to log in the toons, I get several Fauxmazzle errors. I can't even type /FM or /Fauxmazzle. So, I decided to log into my existing toons and see if it's the same and it is. I can't bring up the Fauxmazzle interface on any toon. So basically, my existing toons that are already set up are ok. I just can't set up new ones. Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks!

My first guess would be that you might have moved to a lager monitor/screen resolution (the current version of FauxMazzle is still locked in the 1920x1200 and earlier period of time).

If you set your resolution to 1920x1200 (or possibly 3840x2160) and the login and setup your characters(s) then logout/reset the resolution you should be good to go.

If not, let me know what the errors are.

I haven't changed my monitor in a while and am running at it's max which is 1680x1050. Here's the error message I get when I try to do /FM on one of my toons I haven't played in over a year.

Hey Fizzlemizz! Tis weird, I decided to make a couple of new toons with the new races and also take advantage of the exp/rep bonus. But when I try to log in the toons, I get several Fauxmazzle errors. I can't even type /FM or /Fauxmazzle. So, I decided to log into my existing toons and see if it's the same and it is. I can't bring up the Fauxmazzle interface on any toon. So basically, my existing toons that are already set up are ok. I just can't set up new ones. Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks!

My first guess would be that you might have moved to a lager monitor/screen resolution (the current version of FauxMazzle is still locked in the 1920x1200 and earlier period of time).

If you set your resolution to 1920x1200 (or possibly 3840x2160) and the login and setup your characters(s) then logout/reset the resolution you should be good to go.

Hey Fizzlemizz! Tis weird, I decided to make a couple of new toons with the new races and also take advantage of the exp/rep bonus. But when I try to log in the toons, I get several Fauxmazzle errors. I can't even type /FM or /Fauxmazzle. So, I decided to log into my existing toons and see if it's the same and it is. I can't bring up the Fauxmazzle interface on any toon. So basically, my existing toons that are already set up are ok. I just can't set up new ones. Any ideas on what I can do?